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Silence is so accurate. -- Mark Rothko
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. -- Claudia Black
A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement. -- Paul D. Boyer
Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. -- Gregory Bateson
Accurate scholarship can -- W. H. Auden
All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth. -- Richard Avedon
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America. -- Ken Burns
With narration, you have to be very accurate with your voice. It's a good exercise to do. -- Ben Kingsley
No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him. -- Napoleon Hill
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Accurate reading on a wide range of subjects makes the scholar; careful selection of the better makes the saint. -- John of Salisbury
Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. -- Wayne Dyer
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little value. -- Charles Simmons
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it. -- Herman Cain
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. -- Shirley Hazzard
The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue. -- Saxby Chambliss
As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate. -- Justin Timberlake
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. -- Erwin Schrodinger
The flaw in the statute is that in all its applications, it operates on a fundamentally mistaken premise that high solicitation costs are an accurate measure of fraud. -- Harry A. Blackmun
Well, I think we still have to verify whatever declaration we will get and make sure that it is comprehensive and accurate. So, that would take care of the past activities. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity. -- Dick Wolf
Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life. -- Billy Joel
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. -- Agatha Christie
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theatre, or the play - but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. -- Arthur Miller
These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know -- John Hume
Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather. -- Dan Rather
The role of science is to be systematic, to be accurate, to be orderly, but it certainly is not to imply that the aggregated, successful hypotheses of the past have the kind of truth that goes into a number system. -- Edwin Land
Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. -- Bram Stoker
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. -- Rudyard Kipling
My face always looks bored or depressed. It's not an accurate impression. -- Tao Lin
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. -- Oscar Wilde
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw
Being politically correct means saying what's polite rather than what's accurate. I like to be accurate. -- Robert Kiyosaki
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. -- Tony Robbins
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. -- Wayne Dyer
Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it. -- Louis C. K.
Science cannot progress without reliable and accurate measurement of what it is you are trying to study. The key is measurement, simple as that. -- Robert D. Hare
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. -- Margaret Mead
I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. -- Pope Francis
There is no accurate or useful 'profile' of students who engage in targeted school violence. Some come from good homes, some from bad. Some have good grades, some bad. -- Bill Dedman
I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone. -- Rene Auberjonois
Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren't always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice. -- Christopher Hitchens
I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort. -- Jim Webb
The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases. -- Werner Heisenberg
It's funny. People often compare me to other humor essayists. They're usually quite nice comparisons; I will accept those gladly. But I am always sort of appalled at the idea of being lumped with other, more chick-y female writers. And the truth is probably that neither comparison is accurate. -- Sloane Crosley
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' -- Edgar Allan Poe
In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them. -- Noam Chomsky
A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor. -- Kyrsten Sinema
There's a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn't count the votes right, and so on. That's all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don't take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term 'election.' -- Noam Chomsky
Only accurate rifles are interesting -- Townsend Whelen
Precise forecasts masquerade as accurate ones. -- Nate Silver
Try to be accurate about stuff. -- Anne Enright
May my silences become more accurate. -- Theodore Roethke
Wikipedia, eh? Must be accurate then! -- Terry Pratchett
Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears. -- Heraclitus
poetry is the sung voice of accurate perception. -- Patricia Hampl
If you're not accurate, you'll cause untold trouble. -- David O. Selznick
History may be accurate, but archaeology is precise. -- Doug Scott
Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise. -- Bill Walsh
God created astrologers to make pollsters look accurate. -- John Kasich
Disinformation, in order to be effective, must be 90% accurate. -- Peter Dale Scott
One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions. -- Grace Hopper
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction -- Bill Gurley
Some people's unwillingness to think for themselves represents accurate self-evaluation. -- Arthur D. Hlavaty
In artillery exercises, women always win because they're more accurate. -- Michelle Bachelet
Habit simplifies our movements, makes them accurate, and diminishes fatigue. -- William James
World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories. -- Reid Hoffman
For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle. -- Ernest Hemingway
Sanity is to be found in accurate honesty to oneself. -- David Bain
Since when was the stock market an accurate barometer of anything? -- Arthur Hailey
Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements. -- Jill Lepore
All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work. -- Hiroyuki Nishimura
To remember simplified pictures is better than to forget accurate figures. -- Otto Neurath
Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. -- Alexander John Ellis
Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler. -- Alan Cohen
I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate? -- Steve Berry
Always dress to what is accurate to who and what you are. -- Daymond John
Scientists often seek predictively accurate models, rather than models that are true. -- Elliott Sober
Guys, I don't want to tell you half-truths, unless they're completely accurate. -- Alain Vigneault
Getting [cruise missiles] more accurate so that we can have precise precision. -- Dan Quayle
It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future. -- Niels Bohr
Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate. -- Sharon Olds
Nothing could be more boring than an absolutely accurate movie about the law. -- Roger Ebert
The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be. -- Andrew Vachss
Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe. -- Claudia Black
Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are. -- Jonathan Coe
Order - the accurate arrangement of things - increases productivity. Productivity decides rewards. -- Mike Murdock
Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments. -- Dennis Prager
Our response to temptation is an accurate barometer of our love for God. -- Erwin W. Lutzer
Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high. -- Ken Livingstone
Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate. -- Susanna Kearsley
Something deep within us drives accurate messiness into the neat channels of canonical stories. -- Stephen Jay Gould
The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination -- Claude C. Hopkins
I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate. -- Elizabeth George
If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks. -- Steven Pinker
The words 'In God WE trust' are not only unconstitutional, they aren't even accurate. -- Anne Nicol Gaylor
The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate. -- Anna Wintour
I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information. -- Matthew Yglesias
Physics is the only profession in which prophecy is not only accurate but routine. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Any librarian or scholar will tell you: Close is not the same as accurate. -- Libba Bray
Mistakes are the byproduct of action - and thus an accurate gauge of effort. -- Terry Rossio
When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate. -- David Brock
But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult. -- Alan Bean
Not only are the voices in your head real, but they're accurate as well. -- Doug Stanhope
An accurate, insightful view of current reality is as important as a clear vision. -- Peter Senge
It was important that this album [Chain Letter] was an accurate reflection of me -- Brooke Valentine
Mathematics is the art of accurate reasoning on inaccurately-drawn figures... let that be our motto. -- Arthur Mattuck
Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid. -- William Moore Kelly
My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate. -- Alastair Campbell
The accurate measure of a human being is what he or she actually gets done. -- George Lois
There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men. -- Lee Iacocca
IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there. -- Phyllis Smith

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